Are slow solar winds really that slow? ESA's Proba-3 makes surprising revelation
“In the inner corona, a region very difficult to observe, we saw slow solar wind gusts moving three to four times faster than expected.”
Updated: 1 day ago | By Nibedita Sen
3I/ATLAS was spewing 70 Olympic swimming pools' worth of water daily when ESA's Juice observed it
“When we realised that Juice would be close to the comet around its closest approach to the Sun, we realised what a unique opportunity this was to collect a once-in-a-lifetime dataset.”
Published: 2 days ago | By Sandip Kishan
NASA's SPHEREx observes ice on dust particles in a turbulent star-forming region of the Milky Way
The dust particles in question are no larger than the smoke particles released when a candle is lit.
Published: 2 days ago | By Pranjal Nath
NASA's Hubble provides spectacular views of a barred spiral galaxy 380 million light-years away
The spiral galaxy may look calm, but it is a rather dynamic system characterized by stellar evolution, among other things.
Updated: 3 days ago | By Biplab Das
Is it a star or a planet? What NASA's James Webb Space Telescope found as it looked into 29 Cygni b
29 Cygni b is 15 times the weight of Jupiter and occupies a borderline position between a star and a massive planet.
Updated: 3 days ago | By Nibedita Sen
Scientists discover three types of binary black hole mergers in the universe—here's what they are
The majority of the merging black holes are around 10 solar masses.
Published: 4 days ago | By Biplab Das
Thanks to the James Webb Telescope, we may have finally found evidence of the universe's first stars
Known as Population III stars, they are made of almost pure hydrogen and helium.
Published: 5 days ago | By Biplab Das
Dark matter may not be just one state—new study proposes two versions
Its ratio differs from the Milky Way to dwarf galaxies.
Published: Apr 10, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Rubin Observatory’s early data uncovers over 11,000 new asteroids
Solar System is revealing NEOs and TNOs, turning space into cosmic peekaboo.
Published: Apr 9, 2026 | By Nibedita Sen
We may be missing signals from alien civilizations. Astronomer reveals why
In an exclusive interview with Starlust, astronomer Vishal Gajjar of the SETI Institute discusses how stars may be responsible for the distortion of alien signals.
Published: Apr 8, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Were we born from exploding primordial black holes? New study suggests so
The new study suggests that primordial black holes helped create the matter-antimatter imbalance, resulting in the formation of matter as we know it.
Published: Apr 7, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Early universe was suspected to be rich in hydrogen—now astronomers have confirmed it
A new study has increased the number of known hydrogen gas halos from around 3,000 to more than 33,000.
Published: Apr 7, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Astronomers identify another galaxy missing dark matter, supporting collision theory
A violent collision between two dwarf galaxies strips them of their dark matter.
Published: Apr 7, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Scientists have found the most 'pristine' star in the universe—and it's right here in the Milky Way
Not only does the star have less metal content than our Sun, but it is also the most iron-poor known star.
Published: Apr 6, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Baby stars don’t grow quietly—ALMA captures how a young star 'sneezes' rings of energy into space
The data provides a snapshot of early growth period of the baby star.
Published: Apr 3, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Scientists simulate how collision of two galaxies will proceed over 200 million years from now
“This is the most sophisticated simulation to do this in the world right now.”
Published: Apr 3, 2026 | By Pranjal Nath
Scientists explain why Milky Way's southern gas is glowing 12 percent hotter than the northern part
The gaseous halo in our galaxy has a mass of 100 billion solar masses, which implies that it has more matter than in the galactic disc.
Published: Mar 31, 2026 | By Biplab Das
A supermassive black hole dimmed its galaxy 20-fold—in just 20 years
The galaxy, dubbed J0218−0036, is located 10 billion light-years away from us.
Published: Mar 27, 2026 | By Biplab Das
AI tool confirms over 100 exoplanets from NASA's TESS data after scanning 2.2 million stars
The tool, called RAVEN, managed to deliver the results to researchers in less than 16 days.
Published: Mar 26, 2026 | By Biplab Das
Heavy elements like oxygen help decode a distant spiral galaxy's evolution
'This is the first time that a chemical archaeology method has been used with such fine detail outside our own galaxy.'
Published: Mar 25, 2026 | By Biplab Das